New PDF release: Kids Rule!: Nickelodeon and Consumer Citizenship

By Sarah Banet-Weiser

ISBN-10: 0822339765

ISBN-13: 9780822339762

ISBN-10: 0822339935

ISBN-13: 9780822339939

In Kids Rule! Sarah Banet-Weiser examines the cable community Nickelodeon in an effort to reconsider the connection among youngsters, media, citizenship, and consumerism. Nickelodeon is arguably the main commercially winning cable community ever. Broadcasting unique courses corresponding to Dora the Explorer, SpongeBob SquarePants, and Rugrats (and generating comparable videos, sites, and merchandise), Nickelodeon has labored aggressively to assert and retain its place because the preeminent author and distributor of tv courses for America’s childrens, tweens, and youths. Banet-Weiser argues key to its good fortune is its development of youngsters as voters inside of a advertisement context. The network’s self-conscious engagement with kids—its construction of a “Nickelodeon kingdom” providing offerings and empowerment inside a global established by way of inflexible grownup rules—combines an attract childrens’ bold procuring energy with assertions in their political and cultural power.

Banet-Weiser attracts on interviews with approximately fifty teenagers in addition to with community execs; assurance of Nickelodeon in either alternate and mass media guides; and research of the network’s courses. She presents an outline of the media in which Nickelodeon emerged within the early Eighties in addition to an in depth research of its brand-development concepts. She additionally explores Nickelodeon’s dedication to “girl power,” its ambivalent stance on multiculturalism and variety, and its oft-remarked attract grownup audience. Banet-Weiser doesn't condemn advertisement tradition nor brush off the possibilities for neighborhood and belonging it could facilitate. really she contends that during the modern media surroundings, the discourses of political citizenship and advertisement citizenship so completely tell each other that they have to be analyzed in tandem. jointly they play a basic position in structuring children’s interactions with television.

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